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Transcription From Scratch: Accuracy and Speed

What you'll learn

Everything covered in this course, section by section.

Getting started

  • How transcription work is paid
  • Your setup: headphones and shortcuts
  • Accents, noise and difficult audio

Doing the work

  • Formatting and speaker labels
  • Verbatim versus clean read
  • Proofing before you deliver

Tools: Transcription

  • Otter.ai, step by step

Tools you'll learn

5 tools you will be able to use by the end of this course.

Transcription

  • Express Scribeplayback control
  • oTranscribefree
  • Otter.aifirst-pass drafts

Audio

  • Audacitycleaning audio

Documents

  • Google Docs

Interview preparation

8 practice questions based on real interview assessments

Every topic concludes with a short assessment drawn from the situations employers present to candidates. You will be asked what to do when a system fails, which figure to verify first, and how to respond to the customer. These are not revision exercises. They are preparation for the questions that determine whether you are offered the position.

Complete the practical work in each tool and sit every assessment. Candidates who can answer these questions aloud, and explain their reasoning, are the candidates who receive offers.

  • 1 topics, each concluding in an assessment
  • 8 questions in total
  • Covering all 5 tools taught in this course
  • Every assessment may be retaken without limit

This course includes

  • 1.8 hours of on-demand video
  • 7 lessons across 3 sections
  • 1 free preview lesson
  • 8 interview practice questions
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and desktop

Course content

3 sections · 7 lessons · 1hr 46min total length

Getting started3 lessons · 30min
  • How transcription work is paidPreview9min
  • Your setup: headphones and shortcuts10min
  • Accents, noise and difficult audio11min
Doing the work3 lessons · 32min
  • Formatting and speaker labels12min
  • Verbatim versus clean read10min
  • Proofing before you deliver10min
Tools: Transcription1 lessons · 44min
  • Otter.ai, step by step44min

Requirements

  • A laptop and a stable internet connection
  • Headphones
  • Good listening English